Andrew Bard Schmookler

parablesm.JPG (12921 bytes)Books Available for Purchase:

For each book, add $3 for shipping

The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (second edition from SUNY Press, 1995): paperback $20.


The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny
(SUNY Press, 1993), hardback $42.


Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers
(Henry Holt and Co, 1997), hardback $27.50.

livingsm.JPG (13004 bytes)The following books are officially out of print, and only a limited number of copies are available from the author:


Out of Weakness: Healing the Wounds that Drive Us to War
(Bantam Books, 1988), paperback $21.

 

Sowings and Reapings: The Cycling of Good and Evil in the Human System (Knowledge Systems, 1989), hardback $25.

Fool's Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods (Harper Collins, 1993), hardback, $30.

Recommended Radio-Program Tapes:

Each of these tapes costs $8, plus $1 for shipping

(These are two-hour programs --minus breaks for commercials and news-- broadcast in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley)

sowingsm.JPG (17347 bytes)"God Said It" A discussion of that attitude toward inquiry represented by the bumpersticker that reads, "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it."

"Feeling Different" An invitation to callers, for whom the experience of feeling different from other people --in their families, or in some parts of the wider world-- has been important, to share their experience of feeling different and how it has affected them.

"New Year's Resolutions" A conversation with listeners about their experience of making efforts --through conscious decisions and a harnessing of the will-- to make changes in how they live, and what they've learned from those efforts.

"Movies These Days" I ask listeners, "How do you feel, and what do you think, of the movies that are being made these days, in comparison with the movies of earlier eras?"theillussm.JPG (19742 bytes)

"The Civil War as the Fruit of Misjudgment" We tend --especially in Virginia where I live-- to celebrate the Civil War as a time of heroism and glory. Yet it was also a great national catastrophe. We tend to regard the Civil War as a natural part of our historical landscape, but I suggest it is not fruitful to think of such events as inevitable. If the Civil War was a disaster that was the fruit of human decisions, what other and better options were available to the those who made those decisions, options that if taken would have led to a less destructive outcome?

(The auspices under which the following shows were broadcast are indicated in parenthesis)

"Judgment" Wisconsin Public Radio, one-hour. I challenge the countercultural rejection of the making of judgments as "judgmental" and thus morally inappropriate. If narrow-minded judgmentalilsm is one danger, I argue, so is a reflexive condemnation of the faculty of moral judgment.

"Labor Day," Two-hour conversation on "The Paul Gonzalez Show," on the People's Radio Network. An invitation to callers to talk about the questions, is labor a burden in one's life? for how many of us is our worklife, or can it be, a labor of love?

"Protecting Our Children," two-hour foolsgoldsm.JPG (25126 bytes)conversation with listeners in Virginia concerning how we protect our children from, or help them deal with, the dangerous and toxic aspects of the world around them.

"Race in America," Minnesota Public Radio, one-hour call in talk-show in the immediate aftermath of the O.J. Simpson verdict in October 1995, discussing the challenge to America of its racial divisions.

"Commentaries-- I" A collection of five commentaries broadcast on such programs as "All Things Considered," "Monitor Radio" and "Living On Earth."

"Commentaries--II" Another collection of five commentaries broadcast on such programs as "All Things Considered," "Monitor Radio" and "Living On Earth."